Roger Lumbala

In the footsteps of Roger Lumbala, on trial in France for crimes committed in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Photo: Path under the trees in the heart of the equatorial forest in Ituri. People walk or ride motorcycles in a mystical, luminous atmosphere.

“Wiping the slate meant erasing everything: our property, our people”

14 November 2025 by Claude Sengenya

In Mambasa, deep in Democratic Republic of Congo equatorial forest, we trace crimes that are being tried 6,000 kilometres away in Paris, in Roger Lumbala’s trial that opened on November 12.